
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
University of Toronto Press
Published on 14. January 2012
Book
Hardback
434 pages
978-0-8020-9134-5 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. First-wave feminists also negotiated-or failed to negotiate-similar tensions in their international organizing. Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1 provides a historical framework to bring together voices of women both canonical and less well known, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mabel Dove, who were active in feminist movements in all corners of the world. Suffrage, imperialism, citizenship, sexuality, and moral reform are shown to be key issues in a variety of exchanges across North America, Europe, the global south, and the Pan-Pacific region. This source book is as nuanced as first-wave feminism itself and will prove a valuable resource for studying women's rights in an increasingly globalized world.
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1 provides a historical framework to bring together voices of women both canonical and less well known, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mabel Dove, who were active in feminist movements in all corners of the world. Suffrage, imperialism, citizenship, sexuality, and moral reform are shown to be key issues in a variety of exchanges across North America, Europe, the global south, and the Pan-Pacific region. This source book is as nuanced as first-wave feminism itself and will prove a valuable resource for studying women's rights in an increasingly globalized world.
Reviews / Votes
'This impressive anthology is a welcome and needed addition to the field of feminist studies ... In one handy volume it provides an exceptional resource.'- Bonnie S. Anderson (Histories sociale/Social History)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9134-5 (9780802091345)
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Maureen Moynagh | Nancy Forestell
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
E-Book
11/2011
1st Edition
University of Toronto Press
€78.95
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Persons
Maureen Moynagh is a professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University.
Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.
Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.
Content
Acknowledgements
General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume Introduction: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Slavery, Abolition, and Women's Rights
Imperial Feminisms
Suffrage
Nationalism/Internationalism
Citizenship
Moral Reform, Sexuality, and Birth Control
Work
Peace
General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume Introduction: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Slavery, Abolition, and Women's Rights
Imperial Feminisms
Suffrage
Nationalism/Internationalism
Citizenship
Moral Reform, Sexuality, and Birth Control
Work
Peace